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English
Etymology
From Latin explicāns.
Noun
explicans
- The underlying meaning of an explicandum.
1963, Robert Brown, Explanation in Social Science (The International Library of Sociology & Social Reconstruction), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1968, →ISBN, page 122:Thus when a function statement gives the explicandum, e.g. alcohol consumption, privileged joking, witchcraft inheritance, as a sufficient condition of the explicans (anxiety reduction, friendly relations, agnatic confidence), a law statement can easily be framed on this basis.
1968, Richard Bevan Braithwaite, Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science, Cambridge: At the University Press, page 321:The explicans in such an explanation is an event the occurrence of which possessing a certain property, in conjunction with other events with suitable properties, nomically determines the occurrence of the explicandum-event with a certain property.
1992, John O’Shaughnessy, “Explanation”, in Explaining Buyer Behavior: Central Concepts and Philosophy of Science Issues, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 14:The single pattern that came to have wide acceptance was that the explicandum must follow as a logical consequence of the explicans.
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of explicō (“unfold”).
Participle
explicāns (genitive explicantis, adverb explicanter); third-declension one-termination participle
- unfolding, unfurling, uncoiling, loosening
- deploying, extending, displaying
- disentangling, arranging, regulating, settling, adjusting
- developing, setting forth, exhibiting
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.